"It is not knowing, but the love of……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man."
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45 Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce has 45 quotes on this site.
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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge,"…
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out…
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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a…
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by…
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There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes…
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Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after…
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That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the…
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The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It…
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A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life,…
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to…
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A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
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The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist…
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The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The…
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